Yanwu Xu is Research Scientist at Institute for Infocomm Research, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) , Singapore. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China. He received the B.Eng. and PhD degrees from University of Science and Technology of China, in 2004 and 2009, respectively. He also worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at Nanyang Technological University from 2009 to 2011.

His current research interests include ocular imaging, medical image analysis, computer vision and machine learning. He is the principle investigator (PI) of the AGAR+ project (1.5M SGD), awarded by A*STAR Biomedical Engineering Programme (BEP) grant office in 2015. He is also a co-investigator (Co-I) of three other Singapore Research Projects. He has published more than 70 papers in international journals and conferences, including T-MI, T-SMCB, JAMIA, MICCAI, etc. He also applied for 9 China patents (5 granted) and 10 PCT international patents (1 granted), and two of the patents were licensed to NMCs.

He is an IEEE senior member since 2015, executive member of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), Singapore Chapter, since 2014, and executive member of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS), Singapore Chapter, since 2015. He is an Associate Editor of BMC Medical Imaging since 2015. Moreover, he served as an area chair of International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) in 2017, a program committee member of the 4th IAPR Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition (ACPR) in 2017, a local arrangement co-chair of Asian Conference on Computer Aided Surgery (ACCAS) in 2015, a co-chair of MICCAI Workshop on Ophthalmic Medical Image Analysis (OMIA) since 2014.

He received the President Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) in 2009, IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards (Singapore) in 2013 and 2015, MICCAI Best Reviewer Award in 2015, and Distinguished Professor Award, the Ministry of Public Security and State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (China) in 2016.